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DOI	10.1002/smr.2533
	Through the looking-glass ... An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications
	Dalla Palma, Stefano; van Asseldonk, Chiel; Catolino, Gemma; Di Nucci, Dario; Palomba, Fabio; Tamburri, Damian A.
通讯作者	Dalla Palma, S
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS
ISSN	2047-7473
EISSN	2047-7481
出版年	2024
卷号	36 期号:4
英文摘要	Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) helps keep up with the demand for fast, reliable, high-quality services by provisioning and managing infrastructures through configuration files. Those files ensure efficient and repeatable routines for system provisioning, but they might be affected by code smells that negatively affect quality and code maintenance. Research has broadly studied code smells for traditional source code development; however, none explored them in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA), the technology-agnostic OASIS standard for IaC. In this paper, we investigate a prominent traditional implementation code smell potentially applicable to TOSCA: Large Class, or Blob Blueprint in IaC terms. We compare metrics-based and unsupervised learning-based detectors on a large dataset of manually validated observations related to Blob Blueprints. We provide insights on code metrics that corroborate previous findings and empirically show that metrics-based detectors perform highly in detecting Blob Blueprints. We deem our results put forward a new research path toward dealing with this problem, for example, in the scope of fully automated service pipelines.
英文关键词	code smells infrastructure-as-code metrics-based detectors unsupervised learning TOSCA
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000921872900001
WOS关键词	CODE SMELLS ; QUALITY ; BAD
WOS类目	Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/404685
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dalla Palma, Stefano,van Asseldonk, Chiel,Catolino, Gemma,et al. Through the looking-glass ... An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications[J],2024,36(4).
APA	Dalla Palma, Stefano,van Asseldonk, Chiel,Catolino, Gemma,Di Nucci, Dario,Palomba, Fabio,&Tamburri, Damian A..(2024).Through the looking-glass ... An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications.JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS,36(4).
MLA	Dalla Palma, Stefano,et al."Through the looking-glass ... An empirical study on blob infrastructure blueprints in the Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications".JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS 36.4(2024).